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dchill

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18. It always was.

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Sat Aug 24, 2019, 01:27 PM

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Trump Asserts He Can Force U.S. Companies to Leave China [View all] crazytown Aug 2019 OP

Don't forget to order Ivanka to bring her products back to the U.S. Frustratedlady Aug 2019 #1

Wearing a MAGA hat made in China is now treason? keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #2

It always was. dchill Aug 2019 #18

what about the crap he sells to his brainwashed followers? joanbarnes Aug 2019 #3

Congress over the years has given more and more power to the Executive... Thomas Hurt Aug 2019 #4

Yep jberryhill Aug 2019 #8

yes Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #10

How about Trump branded products first? IronLionZion Aug 2019 #5

I anticipate heads of twenty or so large companies there to greet him at the wh, going notdarkyet Aug 2019 #6

HOPING for that. elleng Aug 2019 #52

Case closed! Bleacher Creature Aug 2019 #7

Like him and his pathetic daughter? onecaliberal Aug 2019 #9

Trump is going cray cray Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 #11

Trump and Bernie Sanders: Why Are We Trading With China? TomCADem Aug 2019 #57

Not really. Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #59

Bernie Sanders: 'Of course' I would use tariffs as President TomCADem Aug 2019 #60

Yeah, cherry picking quotes can lead to contradictions Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #61

Russia Would Support Any Candidate Who Pushes an Isolationist Policy TomCADem Aug 2019 #62

Trump is not really an isolationist, he's just stupid Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #63

Trump still thinks of factories like this: Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2019 #12

Those Republican good old days. dchill Aug 2019 #19

Lots more of these: mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 #33

He will have some kind of loophole duforsure Aug 2019 #13

and the hole keeps getting deeper and deeper, the stock market will fall into that hole Monday. nt yaesu Aug 2019 #14

The stock market will drop another 800 points on Monday cause of this. TeamPooka Aug 2019 #15

Will Ivanka's products now be made in the USA? I do not know if riversedge Aug 2019 #16

Her products made in China are exempt Lock him up. Aug 2019 #54

omg!! should have known. How is this even legal? riversedge Aug 2019 #55

By Executive Order, of course. Lock him up. Aug 2019 #56

Does Trump have a reelection strategy that we're not seeing? Lonestarblue Aug 2019 #17

Yes. Turbineguy Aug 2019 #29

Ghost Dog Aug 2019 #42

The Act doesn't say anything about who provokes the 'emergency', apparently. Ghost Dog Aug 2019 #44

It seems to be... jmowreader Aug 2019 #45

Then he could declare martial law Ghost Dog Aug 2019 #46

That is what he seems to be leaning toward jmowreader Aug 2019 #48

Just have a little question solara Aug 2019 #20

It's almost like trump WANTS to lose in 2020. Paladin Aug 2019 #21

Like in 2016 treestar Aug 2019 #24

By creating mayhem here he can declare Marshall law truthisfreedom Aug 2019 #22

Fixed your post Vox Populi Aug 2019 #25

Not always. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 #28

Excellent point! Vox Populi Aug 2019 #30

... orangecrush Aug 2019 #49

So much for the invisible hand BlueIdaho Aug 2019 #23

See you in court. NT mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 #26

Actually, that is socialism Va Lefty Aug 2019 #27

But he didn't actually formally declare an emergency before tweeting out his "orders"... deurbano Aug 2019 #31

Hell yea!!!!! Strelnikov_ Aug 2019 #32

Trump has, at his disposal, 123 laws granting him "emergency powers". LudwigPastorius Aug 2019 #34

I see he doesn't need to declare an emergency. Several are already in effect, officially. Ghost Dog Aug 2019 #47

Now there are cheaper labor countries than China! at140 Aug 2019 #35

Do It! Me. Aug 2019 #36

Exactly, first he has to clear it with his boss, putin, who may or may not like this Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #38

And GOP members of the House and Senate are SILENT... Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #37

That's the real kicker in all of this - their silence. Vinca Aug 2019 #39

Life is going to get very dicey when we cannot get bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #40

Scarcity equals inflation. roamer65 Aug 2019 #58

and after G7 he will say he was just kidding. nt yaesu Aug 2019 #41

Ready to shop for that $5,000 iPhone yet? KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2019 #43

No one wins a trade war bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #50

For the Orange ass to issue SCVDem Aug 2019 #51

The president does have powerful tools to achieve that end. Nitram Aug 2019 #53